Vegetation of Southeast Asia Studies of Forest Types 1963-1965

Huber:nan, M.A. Bamboo Silvicxilture. Ur.asylva 13 (l): 36.1*3. 3 Tigs.
1959.
Throughou; wide areas of the world, bamboos serve a multitude
of purposes. Rural housing largely depends on them. Palp and
paper manufacture from bamboos is expanding. This article deals
with the occurrence of bamboos; physical factors of climate and
soil; silvical factors, growth habits, and silviculture! practices,
as developed largely in Asia and tc a lesser extent in Latin America
and Africa. The author also reviews the research requirements for
consideration in future programs.
Selected references on the suoject contain 36 titles.
Mangrove Silviculture. Unasylva 13 ( ; i): 188-195. 1959.
The mangrove forest is a community controlled primarily by
edaphic factors. Such edaphic communities are of varying importance
throughout the tropics as successions! stages in the development
of, or in retrogression frorr., the major climax formation communities.
Although the development of these communities involves such factors
ad soil, structure, composition, aeration, mineral contents of surface
and soil water and water movement, including changes in water
levels, probably the most important is the extreme water regime.
As a consequence, a number of forest communities have been recognized
as riparian, gallery, varzea, riverain, periodic or seasonal
swamp, freshwater swamp, p^aty swamp, beach, tidal, and mangrove
forests.
In many areas, mangrove forests have greater importance economically
thp.n other edaphic communities, forming in wide areas an
important source of timber, fuel, charcoal, posts,, poies, v x tannin
and other minor forest products. The effects of commercial exploitation
of mangrove woodland are so marked that, as a result,
these coastal forests are often better known than other forest types.
The composition of mangrove forest in both Southeast Asia and
Puerto Rico, as well as in other regions of the eastern and western
hemispheres, is essentially similar. All the genera of the western
mangrove are found in the eastern area, although the species are
diiferent. In southeastern and southern Thailand, for example, the
following species have been reported: Rhiz jphora mucronata, R.
apieulata, Bruguiera conjugata, B. pArvlflora, B. S'axangula, Avicennia
of f icTnaTi~s7~A~marinaj Cerioos tagal, and others. In Puerto
Rico, the four principal species are: Rhizophora mangle, Laguncularia
racemosa, Conocarpus ereeta and Avicennia nitida.
Kuet, J. Tarif de cubage approximatif des pins sur pied pour les bois
d'Industrie settlement. Rdserv^ de Kirirom, Cambodge. Non public".
9 pages. Service des Eaux et Forets du Cambodge. 1950-
Humbert, H., and F. Gagnepain. Supplement a la Flore Ge'ne'rale de
1'Indochine. 1:700 pp. illustr. 1938-^6.
Consists of additions and corrections to, and replacement of,
parts of contributions by Lecomte and others.
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